On Dice, filtered to Workplace = Remote, your profile has real, live inventory right now — including the rare unicorn: a fully-remote, full-time role that requires a Secret clearance and lists Ansible + Linux as the core skills (ASM Research, below). That single listing is the highest-fit match found anywhere in this search.
The split is clear: cleared remote roles on Dice are full-time W2 at ~$100–130K+Dice · TOMORROW HIRE (primary, verified)100% Remote (USA), $100,000–$130,000/yr, "Must already have an active Secret clearance or Public Trust."
dice.com/job-detail/79a0d8db…; commercial Ansible/Linux contracts run $42–80/hr W2 or C2CDice · verified live listingsInnovative IT Linux+Ansible W2 $50–60/hr; Brilliant Infotech Ansible W2-or-C2C $60–65/hr; Cleo/Brilliant senior automation $70–80/hr.. Your clearance is wasted on the commercial track — lead with it on the cleared roles where it's worth a $15–40K premium.
The 100%-remote trap to dodge: some Dice roles tagged "Remote" actually require you to live near a site — e.g. an Ansible role that's remote only if you're "within 60 minutes of a Federal Reserve office."Dice · Brilliant Infotech (primary, verified)Verbatim residence restriction despite "Remote" tag.
dice.com/job-detail/dd4a3b7e… Read the residence line on every "remote" post before you invest time.
All five cards re-verified on Dice detail pages on 2026-06-20 (second daily pull): ASM Research still live (updated 3 days ago); Innovative IT Linux System Admin re-posted 22 hours ago (freshest listing); GDH still live (1 day ago). New finding this run: TOMORROW HIRE now shows "Remote in Washington, DC, US" with an "On-site" employment type in its header despite saying "100% Remote (USA)" in the description — ambiguity flagged in that card below. ASM Research Cloud Engineer II (d07e6f95) surfaced in today's search but returned 410 GONE — dropped. Cornerstone Defense ($220-240K Expert Sysadmin) and Onyx Point (Senior DevOps) require TS/SCI with Polygraph and are geo-tethered to MD — not listed.
The bullseye. The only role found that combines true 100% remote + active Secret + Ansible/Linux as the actual job: "Secret clearance required," "U.S. citizenship required," Ansible Core (YAML), CI/CD, Python/Bash, enterprise Linux (DNF/YUM)Dice · ASM Research (primary, verified)Full Time, "Remote" with "No travel required." 3+ yrs enterprise Linux; Ansible Core, Jenkins/Groovy, CI/CD, REST APIs. "Secret clearance required" + "U.S. citizenship required."
dice.com/job-detail/b1d9cff9…. ASM Research is an established federal IT contractor — your clearance + Red Hat pedigree is exactly their target. Apply first, today.
Cleared and posted salary — but two caveats this run. First, skills: it's RPA / ML / NLP automation, not classic Ansible sysadminDice · TOMORROW HIRE (primary, verified)"100% Remote (USA)," $100–130K, "Must already have an active Secret clearance or Public Trust." Skills skew RPA/ML/NLP + Python; Linux/Unix proficiency required but not Ansible-centric.
dice.com/job-detail/79a0d8db…. Second, the detail-page header now reads "Remote in Washington, DC, US" with employment type marked "On-site"Dice · TOMORROW HIRE (re-verified 2026-06-20, second daily pull)Description still says "Location: 100% Remote (USA)" but the job header shows "Remote in Washington, DC, US" and employment type "On-site" — contradictory signals. Verify directly with the recruiter before applying.
dice.com/job-detail/79a0d8db… — potentially geo-tethered to DC despite the description. Worth applying only if you'll email the recruiter first to confirm true 100% remote and you're open to the RPA/ML pivot.
Dead-center on skills: RHEL, Ansible, RPM, JBoss/Fuse, Docker — "Need certification in Red Hat"Dice · Innovative IT Solutions (primary, verified)"Remote," Contract W2, $50–60/hr, no travel. Linux/RHEL, Ansible, TCP/IP, RPM, JBoss/Fuse, Docker. Red Hat certification required.
dice.com/job-detail/7f556bfc…. Commercial (no clearance premium) but a clean skills match and your Red Hat certs make you a slam-dunk. Same shop also has a "Sys Admin Linux" at $42–52/hr.
Fresh post (1 day ago) with genuine 100% remote and W2/C2C flexibility: Ansible/Puppet/Chef config mgmt, Linux (CentOS/Ubuntu/RHEL), Bash/Python, multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP), Prometheus/Grafana, server hardening — "U.S. Government security clearance eligibility required" + "U.S. citizenship mandatory"Dice · GDH (primary, verified, posted 1 day ago)Fully remote — "can be performed from an approved location." No geo-restriction. W2 or C2C. $43–45/hr. Ansible or Puppet/Chef; Linux (CentOS/Ubuntu/Red Hat); Bash/Python; multi-cloud AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP. U.S. Government clearance eligibility + U.S. citizenship required.
dice.com/job-detail/0de05b2f…. Your active Secret clears the eligibility bar entirely and gives you a head start over candidates who'd need clearance sponsorship. Pay is the floor on the contract stack — negotiate up or use as quick-start cash flow while cleared apps process.
Strong Ansible + W2/C2C flexibility, but it fails your 100%-remote bar: remote only "within 60 minutes of a Federal Reserve office"Dice · Brilliant Infotech (primary, verified)"Contract W2" and "Contract Corp To Corp," $60–65/hr, 7+ yrs. Ansible playbooks/roles/modules, Python/Bash, CI/CD, Linux/Unix, AWS/Azure. Residence restriction: within 60 min of a Federal Reserve office (Boston, NYC, Philly, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, KC, Dallas, SF). No travel.
dice.com/job-detail/dd4a3b7e… in one of 12 cities. Only pursue if you live near one — otherwise it's the trap, not the target. Listed here as the worked example of "fake remote."
For W2/C2C volume while the cleared apps cook: GDH — Linux Administrator (Remote, W2/C2C, $43–45/hr, Ansible/Linux/multi-cloud, posted today — card above) · Innovative IT — Sys Admin Linux (Remote, W2, $42–52/hr, Ansible/RHEL/Docker) · Radiance Technologies — Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Remote, FT, DoD, Linux+SELinux+Ansible+K8s, "ability to obtain TS/SCI" — active Secret is a strong edge, no pay posted). Note: Brilliant Infotech's $70–75/hr Senior Infrastructure role has the same 90-min Federal Reserve geo-tether as their Ansible Engineer card below — skip unless you're near one of those 12 cities. Find current listings via the saved search in §④.
Dice is the right board for this profile — highest volume of Ansible/RHEL contract and cleared roles, with W2/C2C clearly tagged. The trick is filtering hard and reading the fine print.
| Move | How |
|---|---|
| Lock the remote filter | On any search, set Workplace Type = Remote. This is the URL param filters.workplaceTypes=Remote — bookmark searches with it baked in so you never see hybrid noise. |
| Verify "remote" on every detail page | Dice's "Remote" tag is set by the poster and is often geo-tethered (e.g. the Fed-office role above). Open the detail page and Ctrl-F for "within," "onsite," "must reside," "local to." If it names a city, it's not 100% remote. |
| Run two streams in parallel | Cleared stream: search Secret clearance Ansible + Remote → full-time W2, your clearance premium. Contract stream: search Ansible Linux + Remote + Contract → W2/C2C cash flow. |
| Set daily alerts & apply within 24h | These postings expire in days (3 of the strongest from this search were already gone). Create Dice email alerts on both searches; the verified-fresh ones convert best. |
| Filter employment type | Dice tags W2, Corp To Corp, Independent, Full-time explicitly. Since you're open to either, leave it wide — but know cleared roles skew FT/W2 and commercial Ansible skews C2C. |
Keep ClearanceJobs running as a secondary stream for the cleared side — but per your call, Dice is the spine here.
All figures are posted rates pulled from live Dice listings on 2026-06-20 — not survey averages. Your target: $70–80/hr C2C on the contract track, or $110–140K full-time on the cleared track.
$70–80/hr C2C annualizes to roughly $145–166K at full utilization — but on C2C you carry your own benefits, taxes, and gap-time, so price above the W2 equivalent. The cleared full-time roles trade a bit of cash for stability + clearance maintenance. rates verified · annualization is illustrative
Dice is heavily ATS-driven — recruiters keyword-search the résumé database. Mirror the exact terms in the postings or you won't surface.
CompTIA Security+ (CE) is the gating cert for cleared roles — most are tagged DoD 8570 / 8140 IAT Level II, which Security+ satisfies. The verified Innovative IT role also flat-out requires a Red Hat certification. If your RHCE/RHCSA are current and you hold Security+, put all three in the top third of the résumé; if Security+ is lapsed, that's a ~2-week fix worth doing before mass-applying.
Active Secret + Open to Remote. Save two alerts: Secret clearance Ansible · Remote and Ansible Linux · Remote · Contract. Recruiters search this DB directly.